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    Can we learn how to turn down power lust and the need to control?

    And until we do can we ever have a government full of true representatives.? It seems that the most power addicted among us and therefore those willing to be the most corrupt to gain more power, often wind up in charge.
    Is human government therefore doomed to always self destruct?

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    It seems that way. I tried to look up the longest continuous government in history, but I didn't see any real results. The main one that comes up is China, but that isn't really true. They just had a change of government after WW2.

    https://history.howstuffworks.com/hi...ed-empires.htm
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    Quote Originally Posted by RadioGod View Post
    It seems that way. I tried to look up the longest continuous government in history, but I didn't see any real results. The main one that comes up is China, but that isn't really true. They just had a change of government after WW2.

    https://history.howstuffworks.com/hi...ed-empires.htm

    For example our government has reinvented itself from it's original purpose, due to power lust.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    For example our government has reinvented itself from it's original purpose, due to power lust.
    I think about it alot lately, and I cannot think of a single thing that would fix it. I mean, when I read the Declaration of Independence, that document gets me pretty stoked. But what we ended up with is really no better than any other corrupt form of government. It seems when governments go bad, whether communist, democratic, monarchist, or some form of republic, they all look exactly the same. Look at the US, we are a Constitutional Republic by birth, and now we are a socialist nation. And check out China, a strict communist country, and now home to the most capitalistic billionaires in the world.
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    Govt for the people has been declining for decades, it ended with Obama
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    Power corrupts. That is why I am in favor of term limits.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Power corrupts. That is why I am in favor of term limits.
    So am I but try and get those that benefit by no term limits to vote for them
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Power corrupts. That is why I am in favor of term limits.
    Eliminating elected office as a career is the only way to restore our political system to its founding principles.

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    Govt for the people has been declining for decades, it ended with Obama
    You really need to get those delusions checked out!
    It is the corporatocracy that rules us now! Read my KOCH thread!

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